USTA presses for freeze on government per diem rates
AS THE LEISURE travel crowds of summer begin to wane and commercial travel remains elusive, hotels will look for other sources of revenue, including...
Advantage Hotels offers customizable franchise agreements
SPECIAL ORDERS FROM franchisees don’t upset Advantage Hotels. The Austin, Texas-based company is allowing hotel owners to define their own terms of any franchise...
Associations warn Congress of wave of hotel foreclosures
AS DEBATES DRAG on in Congress over the next round of federal stimulus, hotel industry experts are warning that a record-breaking number of foreclosures...
GSA releases FY 2021 per diem rates
THE U.S. GENERAL Services Administration has released its fiscal year 2021 per diem rates for federal government travelers. Government travel is important to the...
Hotelier’s murder spotlights national issues
THE MURDER OF a Cleveland, Mississippi, hotelier who was beaten to death by a guest he had just evicted, has had an industry wide...
Mississippi hotelier killed, group calls for justice
LAST WEEK, CLEVELAND, Mississippi, hotelier Yogesh Patel was beaten to death by a guest he had had evicted from his hotel earlier in the...
STR: Western states see highest occupancy
THE MASSIVE MOTORCYCLE rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, gave that state the highest hotel occupancy of the week ending Aug. 8 at 71.6 percent,...
AAHOACON 2020 conference wraps up with elections, speeches
AAHOACON 2020, AAHOA’s first virtual annual conference and trade show, has concluded. The final day included a few more sessions on how hotels are...
STR moves forecast for COVID-19 recovery to 2024
RECOVERY FROM THE COVID-19 pandemic took one more step further away with the release of STR and Tourism Economics forecast. The forecast, released at...
Second day of AAHOACON sees talk of recovery
ON DAY TWO, the theme for AAHOACON 2020 was “Where do we go from here?” The main topic of discussion in the day’s general...
